This issue of the Weekly Epidemiological Record provides recommendations and commentary from a SAGE meeting that recognized the safety of rotavirus vaccines among the populations studied and called for clinical trials to determine the vaccines' safety and efficacy in African and Asian pediatric populations. In 2009, the WHO issued an updated recommendation for the use of rotavirus vaccines in childhood immunization programs. Read the updated recommendation.

Author(s): World Health Organization

Published: 2006

Resource types: Report; Newsletter/article

Diseases: Rotavirus

Topics: Disease/vaccine specific information

Regions: Global